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Best Baby Names 2021
Best Baby Names 2021
Apr 10, 2025 9:37 PM

Author:Siobhan Thomas

Best Baby Names 2021

Find the right name for your new arrival

Choosing a name for your baby is one of the most exciting decisions you can make, but there’s so much choice – where do you start?

Best Baby Names 2021 has exactly what you need: thousands of names to browse and the latest trends to inspire you. Whether you want a classic or a modern name, or even if you don’t know where to begin, this book will give you an A-Z of more than 9,000 options to explore.

You’ll find advice and tips on how to navigate your baby-naming journey, including reaching an agreement with your partner and coping with other people’s opinions, so that you can find the ideal name and feel confident in your choice.

Reviews

I am so impressed by Molly's continued hard work and commitment towards this important campaign. She is a woman on a mission and it's one every parent should be listening to.

—— Sarah Turner, The Unmumsy Mum

If you are a parent wanting to gain insight and tools that will enhance your child's ability to navigate image and wellbeing, I cannot recommend this book enough.

—— Jsky

"A timely and incredibly important message with practical takeaways to help children of all ages."

—— Dr Joshua Wolrich

A masterclass. Crisp, engaging, perfectly tragic in the way that families often tend to be... Doshi writes sharply, in no-nonsense prose, not a single sentence in the book can be omitted... Avni Doshi is a force to watch out for in the literary world

—— Scroll

A corrosive, compulsive debut

—— Sunday Telegraph (five stars)

Subtle, intelligent, thrilling, visceral

—— Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Guardian

This caustic tale of a destructive mother-daughter bond is as potent as its title might suggest... It bristles with sharp, chilly aphorisms... Doshi's visceral debut is a no-holds-barred excavation of how hate can both poison and sustain

—— Daily Mail

Scouringly brilliant, a blazing debut that sticks in the mind like caramel blackened to the bottom of a pan... Doshi draws our relationships, both with the truth and with other people, with words that glitter sharp as shards of broken mirror

—— Buro.

When does self-determination become selfishness? What can you learn from a bad mother? ...Sorrowful, sceptical and electrifyingly truthful about mothers and daughters

—— Shahidha Bari , Guardian

A sly, slippery, often heartbreaking novel about the role memory plays within families

—— Stylist

A raw, vividly described exploration of the toxic relationship between two women who are forever bound together

—— Good Housekeeping

Burnt Sugar straddles the line between pain and beauty. It makes the stomach churn. And, like all great literature, it prompts the question of the reader: is this you?

—— Bad Form

Acerbic, full of wit and cool intelligence - every sentence is a coiled spring and each psychological portrait burns itself into the mind. I couldn't put it down

—— Olivia Sudjic, author of 'Exposure' and 'Sympathy'

Daring and deliciously dark, Burnt Sugar will keep you gripped until the very last sentence

—— Zeba Talkhani, author of 'My Past is a Foreign Country'

Raw, wise and cuttingly funny on love and cruelty, marriage and motherhood, art and illness, and one woman's fight for her sense of self

—— Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of 'Starling Days'

Avni Doshi quietly, cleanly, slices through the heart... Impeccably insightful, carved from love, rage, and grief, here all embellishment is discarded, all artifice shorn - motherhood, family, memory, language - to reveal something devastating about our relationships, with ourselves and with those closest to us

—— Janice Pariat, author of 'The Nine-Chambered Heart'

A brilliant debut, about mothers and daughters, that manages be acerbic and brittle all at the same time

—— Nikesh Shukla, editor of 'The Good Immigrant'

A courageous novel written in spare, gleaming sentences. It made me hold my breath and gather it up again

—— Tishani Doshi, author of 'Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods'

Beautifully grotesque, vivid, unexpected. Doshi knows her characters so intimately I felt I could reach out and touch the skin they're in

—— Diksha Basu, author of 'The Windfall'

Crystalline, surgical, compulsively readable. An examination of toxic relationships and the ties that bind us

—— Sharlene Teo, author of 'Ponti'

A disturbing tale of memory and forgetfulness, questioning the relevance and the authenticity of both

—— Indian Express

Taut, unsettling, ferocious

—— Fatima Bhutto, author of 'The Runaways'

Avni Doshi writes fearlessly, with a cruel, almost terrifying intelligence. I was discomfited and exhilarated

—— Meng Jin, author of 'Little Gods'

A tender portrait of a marriage and how we are formed by our closest relationships

—— Good Housekeeping

Heart-wrenching ... Almost a parable, it's a cautionary tale for those failing to appreciate just how short life can be

—— RTÉ Culture

It's rare to read an account of a happy normal marriage and she does it brilliantly

—— Sue Leonard

Kathleen MacMahon writes with a confidence and ease and with an unerring sense of timing

—— Maeve Binchy , Irish Times

Nothing But Blue Sky is quiet and thoughtful and very moving - Claire Fuller

—— Claire Fuller

Addresses what motherhood really feels like... She writes about raising five children with honesty and poignancy, revealing universal truths along the way.

—— Red Magazine

Stroud's warm and honest memoir is the take on parenting we all need. An unflinching look at how to hold on to your own personality when motherhood threatens to submerge it.

—— i Newspaper

Stroud’s clear-eyed look at how wildness and domesticity have entwined in her life is both heartening and inspiring.

—— Olivia Laing

Clover Stroud writes with such startling vivacity and honesty about motherhood, this book has its own heartbeat. It crackles with life - its messiness, darkness, and joy. I loved it.

—— Eve Chase, author Black Rabbit Hall and The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

Clover’s expertise is writing about family life in a way that feels both new and entirely familiar. How Clover talks about motherhood is very different to the ways you see it talked about – I think we’ve got two polarised narratives in media at the moment and she fuses them together to find this new place. She’s really put into words how I feel as a mother – that it is this intense, almost sickening, love, but it is also an absolute fear that you don’t ever know how you’d live without them. I really recommend My Wild and Sleepless Nights.

——
Pandora Sykes

Her descriptions leap off the page... It's the honesty that makes this book so compelling.

—— The Spectator

Clover Stroud managed to write down all of the mania in one place, making me shed a tear and honk with laughter…she writes so eloquently about all we lose as well as gain through our children.

—— Emma Barnett , Good Housekeeping

'Clover Stroud is a wonderful writer of the most colourful prose

—— ME+EM Bookclub

My Wild and Sleepless Nights by Clover Stroud is a robust, raw and rare celebration of motherhood that had me laughing out loud one moment and crying the next.

—— Rachel Joyce , Observer

A captivating guide to the joys and terrors of motherhood.

—— Sunday Times best paperbacks of 2021

An electrically candid memoir...raw, elemental and beautiful.

—— Daily Telegraph
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